Randahl FinkWhen politicians do the exact opposite of what they promised in the election campaign, you know creative explanations are coming.
Here is what Republicans came up with — and yes, this is real:
Diana 🇪🇺🇺🇦I don't think he wanted this. He's always shown a desire to keep his weapons only when absolutely necessary. Israelis must have pressured him. The good thing is that a pedophile has died in Iran.
Robert Petersen 
@randahl “we have always been at war with Eastasia”.
TC Won't Give In To LiesYeah, I don't think you're reading that correctly.
From the #MAGA lens, Trump is "ending" it by killing #Iran 's leaders. It's the same worldview as Reagan ending the USSR thru escalation.
Of course, there is always the "day after" problem. In Venezuela, they had already arranged a deal with the VP. In Iran, we will see if Trump and Netanyahu have a faction lined up to rule.
Konosocio@TCatInReality @randahl this is more the old Chile approach, source of many a fascist dictatorhip by virtue of the US government, but apparently being right wing means not to learn anything from history but insisting of going with your gut.
Fascists absolutely misunderstand and misrepresent history. All part of their gas lighting some majestic past to justify horrific actions to achieve a majestic future.
Ramesh #NotGoingBack⬆️ @TCatInReality @konosocio @randahl
>>>> #GOP: "Trump is ending the #foreverWar that #Iran has waged against #US for last 47 years"
>> #Fascists absolutely misunderstand and misrepresent history. All part of their #gaslighting…
#MAGA forgot #Reagan did a deal with #Iran to sink #Carter's re-election. Also, #Trump got reelected because Oct7 attacks on #Israel affected #US elections in 2024. #Netanyahu helped.
Feels like the Iran attack was Trump's thankyou to Israel
https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/112724750492692595
⬆️ >> #MAGA forgot #Reagan did a deal with #Iran to sink #Carter's re-election… #Trump got reelected because Oct7 attacks on #Israel affected #US elections in 2024. #Netanyahu helped. Feels like the Iran attack was Trump's thankyou to Israel.
That #ingrate Netanyahu snubbed then-incumbent #Biden was obvious a year before #US #Election2024.
Then he snubbed #KamalaHarris after their one-on-one meeting in Washington, paving way for Trump
⬆️ >> Feels like #Iran attack was #Trump thankyou to #Israel.
“Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections” Trump said on #TruthSocial.
What he didn't say is that #Netanyahu rebuffed both #Biden and #KamalaHarris on #ceasefire for months, waiting for Trump to win.
When Trump said that #Harris will start a new war in the #MiddleEast, remember that all accusations are confessions, and he made that one in 2024.
link via @freezenet
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/trump-iran-attack-2020-election-loss
⬆️ #Oct7 was the bloodiest, most exquisitely planned, & successfully executed #electionInterference in US history… #China-brokered #rapprochement between #Iran & #SaudiArabia derailing #ArabIsraeliNormalization just 7 months prior was starting point. #Trump reelection was the result.
On his last full day as President of #US, #Biden said: "After so much pain, destruction, and loss of life, TODAY the guns in #Gaza have gone silent."
VHG 🇪🇺🇺🇦
MarjorieR@randahl so they are dating this back to the Iranian Revolution (1979)?
Maybe we, and they, should remember what had happened before that:
"In the 1940s, there were hopes that Iran could become a constitutional monarchy, but a 1953 coup aided by U.S. and U.K. removed the elected prime minister, and Iran was ruled as an autocracy under the Shah with American support from that time until the revolution. The Iranian monarchy lasted until the Islamic Revolution in 1979, when the country was officially declared an Islamic republic".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Iran
And what precipitated the 1953 coup? It was that the then government was proposing to nationalise their oil industry.
See a pattern here?
Massimo@marjolica @randahl surprise surprise. Always the same pattern. Search for the origin of the term “banana republic”. Ok: It wasn’t about oil. But for the rest. Same same.
Serge 🔻
derZeitreiser 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇯🇵🇬🇧@xerge @randahl Yeah I am pretty sure they could. But why should they? Their Cult will eat it anyway, europe already warns Iran not to defend itself too much against a guy that just 6 weeks ago threaten the same europe with taking Greenland and the wanted war criminal. No one cares that he basically just kidnap and kill people who didn't want to make a "deal" in his favor with him around the world, while blackmailed the rest whenever he wants.
Giovanni
Joxe Rojas 🥐@randahl Wow! Starship Troopers vibes.
Beko Pharm
FLOWRI~1 aims to misbehave@randahl I'm sorry to say that this information is not correct. Please note that they shot (the gulf of) America with asteroids as early as 66 millions of years ago ☝️
Play Ball and Fight FascistsIs the forever war with Iran in the room with us?
Erik Haugen@cafechatnoir @randahl It's in Ukraine and many other places.
If you don't like the sentiment in the OP poster, would you say there is no amount of destabilizing behavior like Iran's over the years that would justify attacks like what we're seeing now?
(To me, the question is more about whether this will just make things worse.)
HumToTable@randahl Um, not even close bro.
Jeppe
JimTheWhyGuy ❌👑@randahl Just like people raving about how great it will be when we suddenly reach AGI, I love to ask one question:
AND THEN WHAT?
The big problem with MAGAts, Trump, Hegseth, NoemLewandowski, and the whole bunch of idiots in this cabinet is they never think about the repercussions of what they have done ... mainly because they think they will escape accountability.
As for me, I will remain long on guillotine futures. 🤬
lbcp 🦖 
humourmetom@randahl You'll know the war is finally over when Jared Kushner touches down in Baghdad to assess "commercial possibilities" for the Trump family
𝙲:\𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚣𝚎𝚗> █@randahl Prime example of War is Peace.
Lestat1977@randahl "Any idiot can start a war, but it takes a hundred geniuses to end it." Nikita Chruschtschow
Lightfighter@randahl Do they mean the hostilities we initiated against them 73 years ago?
Tom@randahl
The ministry of truth is rewriting history...
#GeorgOrwell was an optimist
#1984_book
Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder
WorldTravelerAll7for intelligent readers - ha ha, this is straight out of orwell's 1984. can you believe they think people will fall for this?
for stupid readers - they will fall for it. & you are helping Repugs & Dotard Tumor spread their propaganda. i.e. you're being their mouthpiece😒
@randahl I'm surprised by this reaction; you seem like a pretty well-informed guy.
Syrian civil war, Yemen civil war, destabilization in Iraq, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc, etc, etc, etc. They've killed millions of Muslims. It really is forever war with this regime in place.
Is your "this is real" about the "against america" part? Agreed that's weird.